Bieber, George A. 1866 - 1942

BIEBER, EBERSOHL, SUMMERS

Posted By: Bill Waters (email)
Date: 4/17/2014 at 11:11:00

George A. Bieber, controlling an important and well established hardware store in Fort Atkinson, is a native of Iowa, born in Allamakee County on the 11th of December, 1866. He is a son of Philip and Caroline ( Bieber. natives of Germany, who came to America about the year 1855 and located in Allamakee county, where the father purchased land, carrying on general farming until his death, which occurred April 1, 1881. He was one of the pioneers in this part of Iowa and traveled overland with ox teams, arriving in Allamakee County in 1857. His first home was a crude log shanty and a picture of this dwelling is still in possession of the subject of this review. Philip Bieber's wife survives him and makes her home in Fort Atkinson. They were the parents of three children: Philip and Caroline, deceased; and George A., of this review.

George A. Bieber spent his childhood upon his father's farm in Allamakee County and at the early age of sixteen began his independent career, becoming identified with the hardware and tinning business in Waukon, where he remained for two years. He afterward spent a short time in Postville and on May 19, 1885, arrived in Fort Atkinson, where he has since remained, a valued and respected resident. For about five years and a half he clerked in a tinning establishment and at the end of that time purchased the business, of which he has been the proprietor since the loth of February, 1890. He conducts today the oldest hardware concern in the fourth congressional district with one exception and is in control of an important trade along this line, his patronage having steadily grown as his honorable and straightforward business dealings have become more widely known. He is in addition interested in the G. A. Bieber Hardware Company at Lawler, is a director in the Iowa Mutual Insurance Company, and is widely known in mercantile circles of this section of the state.

On the 2d of June, 1892, Mr. Bieber was united in marriage to Miss Lida M. Summers and both are well known and favorably regarded in Fort Atkinson. Politically Mr. Bieber gives his allegiance to the Republican Party and he is connected fraternally with the Masonic order and the Modern Woodmen of America. He deserves great credit for his successful career, for industry, ability and a progressive spirit have constituted the basis of his prosperity and his genuine personal worth has enabled him to maintain his high standing in the community as a substantial and desirable citizen.

Source: History of Winneshiek County, Iowa Vol. II Chicago the S. J. Clark publishing Company 1913

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